May 06, 2026
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S05 E283
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00:11:30
Send us Fan MailNigeria has been on my mind, and I’m saying the quiet part out loud: too many of us are living like someone else will fix what we all feel breaking. I’m talking to Nigerians at home and Nigerians in the diaspora, especially anyone who feel...
Apr 29, 2026
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S05 E282
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00:16:04
Send us Fan MailYour head is full of noise, half-finished thoughts, and repeating voices. Instead of fighting that chaos, we use it. I walk through a simple but sharp metaphor: writing is the act of bringing order to chaos, the way scattered letters becom...
Apr 22, 2026
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S05 E281
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00:19:11
Send us Fan MailA spear against eight hundred. A warrior whose hand won’t release the sword. Three men who cut through an enemy camp for one cup of water. If those images do not stop you in your tracks, you are reading the wrong stories.
I’m Amak...
Apr 15, 2026
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S05 E280
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00:15:39
Send us Fan MailEverybody wants to make it big, but most of us quietly hope it happens without the grind. I’m sharing a simple idea that cuts through information overload and gets straight to what actually creates results: the 1% theory, the habit of givi...
Apr 08, 2026
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S05 E279
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00:09:34
Send us Fan Mail“Are you entertained?” isn’t just a movie quote to us, it’s a mirror. We start with that Gladiator moment and follow the thread into a bigger question: what is entertainment, really, and why does it have such power over our attention, our...
Apr 01, 2026
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S05 E278
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00:25:40
Send us Fan MailMath gets a bad reputation, but most of us use it all day without noticing. We start with a real moment at home, my daughter tells me she doesn’t like math, and it pushes me to ask a deeper question: what if “math” is not mainly equations,...
Mar 25, 2026
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S05 E277
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00:48:53
Send us Fan MailWorship gets reduced to music so easily that we forget the uncomfortable question at the center of faith: what are we willing to place on the altar? We’re joined by Jeffson Odiety, Nigerian worship leader and convener of The Closet, to tal...
Mar 18, 2026
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S05 E276
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00:21:23
Send us Fan MailFive years ago, I was just trying to relive a moment: the first spark of The Word Cafe Podcast, when the “studio” was my bedroom and the dream still felt too big to say out loud. But the real beginning goes further back to my 40th birthday...
Mar 11, 2026
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S04 E275
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00:15:21
Send us Fan MailEver notice how a single idea repeats all day until it becomes the only thing you can think about? That’s not an accident—it’s a pattern doing its quiet work. We take you from kitchen-table math to the beating heart of social media, showin...
Mar 04, 2026
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S04 E274
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00:36:04
Send us Fan MailEnergy headlines rarely tell the whole story, so we pulled the camera back to show how Nigeria’s oil and gas sector is being rebuilt in real time. From renewed FIDs and streamlined approvals to a decisive pivot toward gas, we explore why i...